Sanitary appliance.



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SMl'TIiRY APPLIANCE. i

ppliceton tiled July t?, wie. Serial lio. -'fijll To all 'it may concetto Be lniown tlist l; EMMA W. HASH?, e citizen of the United States, residing at Louisville, in the county of Jeiiersonand, State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Sanitary Appliences, of which the following is a. specicetion.

This invention relates to improvements in sanitary appliances for toilet seats.` Articles oi this type7 which nre ordinarily insole of' peper sheets userlbut onceyorving to their formation or construction involve considerable Weste of materiel, end it has therefore been my object to provcle an article designefl to eliminate the Weste as much as possible While possessing sui'eent structure, so to speak, to adequately atteind the desired potection.

'Where the protection is desired l To be more specific, these former proteotive sheets usually :ire mede of suoli size es to entend over tlie complete seetE when es e.

mattei' of acttliis is not essentiel; the sheets furthermore when cut were provided with an opening to coincide with the toilet sent` opening by cutting out lthe mejor portion of the 'central part of the sheet, this cut out part being discsrflecl to As distinguislietl from this my invention einboies a. sheet which covers substantially only one half of the toilet sest,-the front portion l end the materiel the sheet when providing for the toilet seat openingis simply slit to enable the edges of the slit portions to loe 'nent or folded in such inenner es to provide reteining,n ileps which hold the sheet inpleoe upon the sont until the user is sented.

lt is further en objeet of this invention to arrange individuel sheets of the noove type in s convenient package to enable them to be readily ceriie in traveling 'from place to piece so es to be accessible for use when required.

For .o full understanding' of tlie present invention, reference is to be had to the following clescription and the accompanying drawingj in which:

Figure l is s perspective View showing the ap licstion of the 'protective device to the toi et seat;

, Fign 2 is e pien View of one of the sheets;

v l l Fig. 3 is e perspective View showing the l sheets insole up into pack-nge form; and

Fie; l is s perspective View of tlie tablet forni oi the sheets.

Throughout tlie following leteil closcription and on the seveiol iigfui'es oi" tlie dreieiingsJ siinilerparts uroreferreti to by like reference characters.

ln tlie drawing, l denotes" the sheet loudly which it will be o`1served in 2 is fen sliepe in forni, hevking u narrow extension 2 etone side. The slieet at the other side? or just opposite t'o the ,extension efoeseid is 'slit along the lines 3, $3, longitudinally of the sheet, to a point approximately centrally thereof, to tlieeby torni e tongue, ln ed dition the edges of the sheet laterally of tlie tongue are slit in e direction snlistentinlly transversely or". the sheet body, this to enelole tlie meterielto lie remiily bent invveitil. or clownwnrclly es shown et 5, when the sneet is applied to the sent shown. in Fig in conformation with the sent opening. will be noted that the tongue 4 is also lient inwardly of the opening, and likewise-tile ei:- tension 2 is bent so as to engage about the 'forward edge of the seat, the tongue ezitension serving to hold the sheet in pleee.

. groups as indicated at 8 es this (lisp-cees the bulli to better advantage und in addition makes it easy to remore the indivifiuel sheets one et n time foi' use, liiis pecksge form is convenient iortrsveling purposes.

lin the forni of i tiie sloeets re simply' lstaplecl to the backing slieet 9 es e tolilet and;

this unit muy be itung in e convenient pince in the toilets adjacent to tlie seats.

vThe device is of simple forni. :ind-'is eco nomicel in construction, since the central portion is not Wasted, this being of espe' ciel consioleration during the existence of scarcity of peper ancl high cost of material.

Having thus described my invention, what I Gleim as new is:

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A sanitary epplience for toilet seetswliicli A consists of a sheet of suitable material of a size to extend over substanially one-half olf the seat, said sheet being formed at one side with an extension adapted to be bent downwardly over the front edge of the sheet, said sheet being slit at its other side at spaced points to form zi tongue from the central portion of the material bendable down Wardly to engage the forward edge of the seat opening, the edges of the slit portion of lo the sheet at each side of the tongue being slit substantially transversely of the sheet to provide bendable aps for engagement with the lateral edges of the seat opening.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature. 15

EMMA W. HAST. 

